President Mnangagwa Releases Over 1 600 Prisoners As Most Inmates Fail The Test

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has through the Presidential Amnesty gazetted last week released 1 680 prisoners on Wednesday morning.

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) had initially recommended the release of 5 000 prisoners in a bid to decongest the country’s prisons to 16 838 but most of the prisoners failed to meet the minimum requirements.

The Herald reports that only 53 women benefited from the amnesty after it turned out that women topped in the commission of specified offences like murder, robbery, carjacking, sexual offences and public violence.